8:30 AM  - 9:00 AM
Coffee, Tea and Registration

9:00 AM  -  10:15 PM 
The Importance of Curiosity and Imagination
For decades in many classrooms around the world, history and the social studies have been rated as pretty boring by many students, so it is refreshing when Australia sets national history goals that start right off with the goal of stimulating ". . . students' curiosity and imagination." (Download PDF)

In this opening session, Jamie leads the group through a number of activities designed to highlight the key process goals of the curriculum and illustrate the considerable Pro-D required to make curiosity and imagination ongoing realities for the history classroom.

10:15 - 10:45
Morning Tea

10:45 - 12:30
Six Strategies to Spark Curiosity, Engagement and Imagination
During this session, Jamie will lead the group through sample activities designed to illustrate six of the strategies shown in the diagram above.

• Primary Source
• Debunking
• 20/20 Hindsight
• What if?
• Character Study
• Adviser

12:30  -  1:30 PM
Lunch
A hot buffet lunch will be served.

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Six More Strategies to Spark Curiosity, Engagement and Imaginations
During this session, Jamie will lead the group through sample activities designed to illustrate six more of the strategies shown in the diagram above.

• Interview
• Mystery
• Trial
• Suppose
• Journal
• Case Study

Note: Each of these strategies can take some time to master as a teacher. Today's session is meant to provide some samples of such learning but the number of hours is not sufficient to establish mastery of the techniques involved. That mastery is best achieved over time as teams of teachers work together in study groups, sharing stories of difficulty and triumph, honing the necessary skills, translating theory into practice.

Coffee, Tea and Registration

9:00 AM  -  10:15 PM 
Introduction
Many schools have underfunded professional development to support teachers as they consider the best ways to use new technologies with students. The PD they do offer is usually about driving the software and equipment rather than effective instruction. In this session, Jamie outlines many of the moves, tactics, tricks and strategies required to win attention and student success in laptop classrooms. He argues that pedagogy does matter and that PD should focus on how to manage such learning environments.

A successful lesson results from mindful devotion to the following elements, each of which will be considered in this presentation:

1. Lesson objectives, content and design
2. Classroom landscape
3. Classroom culture
4. Teaching moves, strategies, tactics and procedures
5. Equipment
6. Assessment procedures



An effective teacher knows how to orchestrate these elements to match the characteristics of the students, adapting to each group as the lesson proceeds.

10:15 - 10:45
Morning Tea

10:45 - 12:30
A Series of Learning Experiences
to Illustrate Sound Lesson Design and Execution
Participants will participate in laptop learning challenges designed to show the choices smart teachers must make when launching activities that are digitally enhanced.

12:30  -  1:30 PM
Lunch
A hot buffet lunch will be served.

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Planning for Effective "Take Up"
This part of the day will be devoted to the change strategies required so that an influx of laptops will be met with enthusiasm and skill. What are the best ways to enlist and inspire the enthusiastic response of staff to the arrival of such equipment? How do we avoid the cart leading the horse? In addition to professional development strategies, the session will take a look at the "True Cost of Ownership" and a full array of program elements ranging from program development and assessment to technical support and leadership.

Coffee, Tea and Registration

9:00 AM  -  10:15 PM 

Introduction
In this opening presentation Jamie outlines the prime strategies suggested in his new book by the same title. He begins with the need to replace topical research with inquiry that matters - questions of import - challenges that require students to make answers instead of just finding them. He stresses the value of original thinking and proposes ways to grow the synthesis skills of students so they are capable of making up their own minds and inventing smart solutions to irksome issues and problems. 

10:15 - 10:45
Morning Tea

10:45 - 12:30
Studying Complex Concepts such as Beauty, Truth and Courage in Depth
Students are rarely challenged to dig down deep in order to create rich definitions of complex ideas. In this session Jamie shows how teachers can use a series of digital explorations to deepen students' understanding of such concepts. Students learn that dictionaries usually pay short shrift to complex ideas, and they even learn to improve the definitions they encounter.  Participants will use their laptops to explore such ideas in much the same way they will ask their students to explore.

12:30  -  1:30 PM
Lunch
A hot buffet lunch will be served.

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Beauty and the Beast: Using Digital Riches to Enhance Learning

Long an advocate of using new technologies in smart ways to deepen and enhance student thinking, communicating, inventing and problem-solving, Jamie will provide examples of ways that digital resources can take students to the highest levels of Bloom's Taxonomy as well as a new Taxonomy Jamie has created to measure the level of originality and synthesis shown in student work. He will also touch briefly on the limitations of digital life, pointing to Thoreau's words,
"In Wildness is the preservation of the world."